Fagunia

Name: Fagunia
Address: Faguniakhet, Nainital, 263001, IN
Telephone: +918595219857
Rating: 4.4

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Fagunia® is a solar powered, ecofriendly homestay and farm in the Himalayas near Nainital

06/06/2025

One thing that living in a remote mountain location can teach you if you are willing to learn is self reliance. Over the years, we have increasingly been learning to do a lot of things on our own here.

And so, decided to teach himself wood working. As a hardcore lover of books and libraries, Anil decided to take up the making and fixing of wooden book shelves and create a cosy study cm home library.

It was a steep learning curve and lots of hard work, from cross cutting wooden planks to planing and sanding them to polishing them with linseed oil and then fixing them to the wall using wooden brackets that he made himself plus installing the LED lights but we think the end result is quite decent. Check out the full photo dump of this project.

Now, this is one of our favourite parts of the house to hang out in. What do you think?

Next, he plans to teach himself joinery and slowly do more complicated carpentry work.

[wood working, carpentry, self reliance, slow living, DIY]

05/06/2025

Happy to be featured on the Daily Passenger podcast for their 100th episode for World Environment Day!

We share our thoughts on how Fagunia took shape, our journey so far and the path ahead.

A big thank you to Anshul, our podcast host, for inviting us to be a part of his wonderful podcast on responsible travel.

Listen to the episode here: https://open.spotify.com/episode/72kvVpwUqD8kYcqn5AZbeL

28/05/2025

🎉 We're thrilled to announce the launch of Fagunia Microlots—our new online store featuring ultra-small batch, artisanal organic products made from freshly harvested ingredients grown on our biodiverse permaculture farm in the Himalayas.

🌿 Each microlot is handcrafted by Aditi, in the kitchen of our mountain home, using authentic heirloom recipes and traditions from our Pahadi-Telugu families.

🌏 Everything is carefully packed in reusable glass jars and wrapped in hand-collected pine needles—because sustainability is as important to us as quality.

✨ Featured Microlots:

🌿 Peppermint Lemongrass Tea – A soothing infusion to calm your senses.

🍑 Peach Preserve – Chunky, crafted from handpicked Himalayan peaches.

🌶 Himalayan Chilli Pickle – Bold green chilli-mustard forward pickle that packs a fiery punch.

🌿 Karivepaku Podi – Flavorful and tangy Andhra style gunpowder made from forest foraged wild Himalayan curry leaf.

🫚 Himalayan Turmeric Powder – Aged naturally for three years, offering unparalleled depth and color.

💫 Due to our ultra-small batch approach, each microlot is only produced in limited edition quantities to ensure you get the freshest farm to table experience.

📦 So don’t wait—explore the complete range and place your order today before they are gone to experience the true taste of the Himalayas!

🛍 Shop Now: fagunia.com/shop
🚛 Pan India with slow shipping :)

11/05/2025

.indus Red-billed Blue-Magpie
( Urocissa erythroryncha )
Raucous, vividly-colored magpie of lowland and foothill forests, gardens, and parks.
Bright blue with black head, white belly, and long tail which trails loosely behind it in flight. Bright scarlet bill and extensive white crown serve to distinguish this species from the otherwise similar Yellow-billed Blue-Magpie. Travels in groups, communicating with constant, raucous, hoarse calls.

Shot on Canon R5, Sigma 150-600mm lens

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21/04/2025

🍓 A glimpse of our strawberry harvests from different days. Yes, we are currently obsessing over these red beauties, more so because we started with just four saplings three years back and over the years we have been propagating and spreading them through runners. This is the first year when the harvest seems to be much more than just a handful. All the love, care and patience is finally paying off now. ❤️

[ strawberry, farm to table, mountain farm, permaculture farm, grow your food, Fagunia ]

14/03/2025

Happy Holi to all of you from all of us!

[Holi, gujiya, festival, colors]

06/03/2025

We have been very busy re-designing our kitchen garden. It’s finally getting into shape, exactly how we had envisaged it. Some of the summer veggies have been sown and there’s a lot more to sow. We have a lot planned for this area to have a steady supply of fresh herbs and veggies for our kitchen, let’s see how that unfolds. More on that soon.

[farm, kitchen garden, farm life, permaculture, mountain farm, Nainital, farmstay]

23/02/2025

This feels like an unbelievable dream! So happy and thrilled to share that we have just been awarded the Silver Award for Sustainable Leadership in Homestays at the prestigious Indian Responsible Tourism Awards 2025.

Thank you so much , and the esteemed jury for deeming us worthy of this award.

Huge congratulations to all our fellow awardees for their inspiring work in responsible tourism.

Heartfelt thank you to all of our guests, Hushstays-our booking partner, staff, family and friends for supporting us on this incredible journey.

This recognition will inspire us to do even better to offer memorable, sustainable and responsible stays to our guests and also build on our social responsibility towards the communities around us. But for now, we are celebrating 🙂

[irta2025, irta, outlook, award, responsible tourism, nainital, Uttarakhand]

22/01/2025

🧑‍🌾 We started harvesting our Himalayan turmeric today!

🌿 We grow our turmeric organically, with no use of chemicals or pesticides or any additives. Cow dung is the only natural soil conditioner we use. We also let our turmeric grow in the soil for at least 2-3 years to naturally enhance its curcumin levels.

🌾 The turmeric we started harvesting today is 3 years old so we were excited to see how it had done. The risk with letting it grow for 3 years is that your overall yield can also go down, which has happened a little with us. But we are so happy to see the bright yellow hue of our all natural, organic and aged Himalayan turmeric.

🛍️ Post the harvest, we plan to clean, wash, boil, dry and hand pound the turmeric to create our latest ultra small batch Fagunia Microlot’s Himalayan Turmeric Powder. Stay tuned, we will update once it is available for orders.

👉 Until then, swipe left to see all the harvesting action from today!

[turmeric, Himalayan, organic, permaculture, farm, farmlife, harvesting, Fagunia, Microlots]

09/01/2025

🧅 Our annual onion planting started today. Will probably take us a couple more days to finish all the planting but what a special kind of joy this work brings!

👩‍🌾 This year, we are taking it slow and doing almost all of the planting on our own. Swipe left to see some of the planting action!

🔈 We have also been thinking of starting a farm volunteer program at Fagunia. Would you be interested?

[onion, farming, farm life, mountain farm, fagunia, permaculture, natural farming, grow your food]

01/01/2025

It’s quite a dreamy start to our new year here! Wishing everyone a happy and joyous new year and special heartfelt thanks to all our guests who trusted us with their vacations last year.

[new year, happy new year, 2025, homestay, nainital]

Address

Faguniakhet
Nainital
263001

Telephone

+918595219857

Website

https://fagunia.com/

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About Fagunia

Fagunia Farmstay is a charming, eco-friendly stone villa located on a stunning farm estate next to protected forests in the Indian Himalayas near Nainital for discerning travellers to reconnect with nature. The villa can sleep up to 12 people and guests have the option to book the entire villa or each of the two suites and two rooms separately. For booking: